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...twist during dummy scrimmage this afternoon, and had to retire, his place at fullback being taken by Black, a substitute who has shown great promise in his play so far this season. A star on last year's Freshman team, he took his place in the Green backfield against Yale last week when the Dartmouth backs had worked the ball within the ten yard line, and took the pigskin over for his team's only tally...
Throughout the play, the hard, fast drives of the 1928 backs proved too much for the Senior defense. The 1927 line was weak, and generally the task of bringing down the runner was left to the backfield. J. N. Barbee '28, and Hamilton lieard '28 of the Juniors starred with magnificent running, time and again tearing off gains of from four to eight yards...
...operation shown between a heavy, hard-charging line, and a speedy backfield was the secret of the one-sided victory. Tomorrow this Brown team, probably well-filled in with substitutes, will meet Bates, a weak team from Maine There should be no difficulty for the Providence men to roll up a score...
Meadows and Saltonstall will be at the end positions at the start of hostilities tomorrow, with Simonds and Pratt holding down the tackle assignments. Kilgour and Goodwin are the guards, while Gamache will be at center. In the backfield the Harvard mentor will start Putnam at quarterback in an offensive combination completed by Zarakov, Clark and Sayles. This will mark Zarakov's first appearance in a starting backfield since the Yale contest of a year...
With French definitely out of tomorrow's game, the kicking burden will fall on Putnam, although if Chauncey is put in the backfield during the afternoon he will probably handle the punting assignment. Against Dartmouth Coady is expected to do the kicking, but it is doubtful if the Crimson captain has had enough practice thus far to take over the job while he is playing tomorrow...